The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-09-29
TaJasDAY. SEPTEMBER %. 1887.

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ANARCHISTS 2O HANG.
Chicago, Sept. 24.-The death order
20 the sheriff Of Cook county was
handed down by the supreme court at
Ottawa this morning and reached
Sheriff Matson later in the day. The
order recites the substance of the de-
cision in the case Of. the condemned
anarchists. and directs that the Sell
tence Of death be carried into execu-
ton on the llth day Of November.
Concerning the fate of the anarch-
lists, we desire to repeat now what the
ADVANCE said in substance when they
were convicted, viz !: that if tie death
penalty is Inflicted anarchists will mnl-
tiply by the thousand and society will
pay for this judicial murder IN riot and
bl"o'ls:led. Every hanged anarchist
will be dragons tooth that will
spring mp an army Of anarchists.
Already there is evidence that this
prediction was not an idle one. Mrs.
Capt. Black, speaking to New York
reporter. said: "A very panic has seized
the community Onr homes. our liyes
nrc near to destruction. Men speak of
the danger that ovrriangs us all in &C
cents of fear and horror. We are deal
ing with men made desperate 10y
weight of woe. They see their friends
on the brink Of an abyss over which
wild, unreasoning passion works to
hurl them to d,sgraceful DEATH"
And yet Chicago and the monopo-
listic and subsidized press over the
country clAmors for the death of these
seven men.
There is one way for Chicago to over
come her panic. Let the city, and the
country with the city, demand that the
sentence he commuted to imprison-
ment.
We do not care now to 60 into any
discussion IA to the trial and cOnvic-
tion. We believe with the Maquoketa
Reporter when it says, 1.-The stalwart
republicans had their Guiteau, but no
one thonght of hanging Conkling for
Guiteau's deed. In our opinion, after
reading the testimony closely, Conk
ling had just rs much to do with the
murder of Garfield rs the anarchists
had with the affair in the Haymarket
square,
We desire to 90 on record rs most
earnestly protesting against the mur-
der of these seven men by the state.
THE DEL1NQUEvT
The editor Of one of our exchanges
gets at the delinquent subscription bu.
slness in the newspapers in the most
expressive and PIaiDest manner we
have seen for some time. H. con,par-
ing the newspaper business with tha.
cf the farmer, le says: suppose the
farmer raised 1000 bushels of wheat,
and his neighbor should buy 4 bushel,
and the price was Il small matter of s.
or less, and Say, L will hand you the
amount in u few days. AS the farmer
does not want to appear small, he says
'all right, and the man leaves with the
busllel of wheat; another one comes in
the same way, and still another, until
the whole 1000 bushels of wheat were
trusted out to 1000 different persons.
and not one Of the purchasers concerns
himself abont it. for it is Il very small
amount lie owes the farmer, and of
course that does not help him any. He
does not realize that the farmer has
frittered away his crop of wheat and its
value is due him in 100 little tributes,
and that he is seriously embarrassed in
his business because his debtors treat
1t rs q small matter. But if all would
pay him promptly, which they could do
rs well IN not, it would be large
amount to the farmer, and would ena-
ble him to carry on his business with
out the difficulty with which the
newspaper man has to contend. ''-Ex-
change.
Newspaper men. however, are large
]y to blame for this state of affairs. If
they were as 'mean" and as indepen-
dent in money matters as they are in
political and other matters, they
would insist more sharply on having
their own, just as the merchants do.
We plead guilty ourself. We have
trusted our subscribers one, two, three
or four years. rs the case might be, and
the GOODNESS with which many of them
walk off and never pay, or tell us they
can't pay when we know better, or pay
every bill before they will pay the
printer, or deliberately take the paper
intending to beat US; the GOODNESS with
which they beat All editor and outrage
his confidence is enough to freeze po-
lar bear, and must have something
to do with the late cold winters we
have had.
But we are about to begin raid on
this class Of delinquents. We propose
to bring them to judgment, and let
that hang over them at least.
You see, they can't transfer real
property in Minnesota until judgments
are satisfied.
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